HISTORY THE NEXT FIFTY THINGS THAT MADE THE MODERN ECONOMY by Tim Harford (Bridge Street £20, 352pp) Who invented canned food? Who first thought of pensions? Whose idea was it that the first row on a typewriter should read QWERTYUIOP? These are things I didn’t know I didn’t know, and didn’t know that I wanted … Read more
PSYCHOS By Christena Appleyard for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 2 July 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 2 July 2020 FINDERS, KEEPERS by Sabine Durrant (Hodder £14.99, 320 pp) FINDERS, KEEPERS by Sabine Durrant (Hodder £14.99, 320 pp) Verity Baxter is a lonely lexicographer and we are treated to a new word with its … Read more
CONTEMPORARY By Sara Lawrence for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 2 July 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 2 July 2020 QUEEN BEE by Jane Fallon (Penguin £8.99, 400 pp) QUEEN BEE by Jane Fallon (Penguin £8.99, 400 pp) Fallon is a fabulously engaging writer who excels at counter-intuitive plot lines, creates believable protagonists who … Read more
DEBUTS By Fanny Blake for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 2 July 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 2 July 2020 THE MARGOT AFFAIR by Sanaë Lemoine (Sceptre £16.99, 336pp) THE MARGOT AFFAIR by Sanaë Lemoine (Sceptre £16.99, 336pp) Seventeen-year-old Margot Louve is the secret love child of Anouk, a celebrated stage actress, and Bertrand … Read more
Monday June 8 The longer the coronavirus crisis has dragged on, the more I’ve craved some palm-tree time at my home in Los Angeles, which is my oasis from all life’s woes. But LA’s been resembling a grim war zone in recent weeks, with the George Floyd protests turning into riots, and the city enduring … Read more
From Amanda Craig’s pacy drama to The Weekend by Charlotte Wood, David Trueba’s latest and a sinuous novel by Nicola Maye Goldberg, this week’s best new fiction By Madeleine Feeny and Simon Humphreys For Event Magazine and Eithne Farry For Event Magazine and Hephzibah Anderson Published: 09:32 BST, 28 June 2020 | Updated: 09:32 BST, … Read more
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From Adele in 2016 to David Bowie in 2000: The BBC has gone retro-Glasto with The Glastonbury Experience to celebrate the festival’s 50th birthday By Tim De Lisle for Event Magazine Published: 22:01 BST, 27 June 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 27 June 2020 The Glastonbury Experience BBC iPlayer, available now Rating: This weekend, the … Read more
From Sandi Toksvig’s We Will Get Past This to the timely 1619, So Hot Right Now and the kooky How To Survive, this week’s top podcasts By Leaf Arbuthnot Published: 22:01 BST, 27 June 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 27 June 2020 We Will Get Past This We all need Sandi Toksvig in our lives … Read more
One or two readers have been less than enthusiastic about this big, fat Washington memoir. ‘Bolton’s book, which is getting terrible reviews, is a compilation of lies and made-up stories, all intended to make me look bad,’ wrote one early reviewer, Donald J. Trump. ‘Many of the ridiculous statements he attributes to me were never … Read more